Brush



C. SCHATTE.

' BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 1920.

Patented Aug. 16, 1921.

INVENTOB 61K),

l TTURNEY CHARLES SCHAT'IE, on EW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR ro SCHATTE MANUFACTURING 00. mo, on LANSDALE, PENNSYLVANTA, A CORPORATION or DELAWARE.

BRUSH.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented A11 16, 1921- Application filed November 10, 1920. Serial No. 423,045.

.7 0 all to hom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES SCHATTE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of New York, in the county of ]3ronx and State of New York have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in brushes, and more particularly to shaving brushes.

The main object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive brush, wherein the knot is mounted in such a manner upon-the stock thereof that it can be C011? veniently replaced, thereby permitting in barber shops each customer to be lathered with a previously unused knot.

With these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrange ment and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the iiivention.

Gne of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of a brush constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the knot gripping means.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates the handle or stock of a brush, provided in one of its ends with a socket 11. In this socket is seated a sleeve 12, snugly fitting the same and projecting a slight distance beyond the handle. The socket-ed end of the handle is reduced, as shown at 13, and over this reduced portion is drawn a thimble 14, having a circular opening 15 in its flat head 16, and a slot 17 in its cylindrical wall. This slot extends in a plane at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the handle. lVithin the thimble is disposed a disk 18,

resting upon the sleeve 12. A thumb piece 19 upon the disk projects through the said slot. In the disk is formed an opening 20,

having the size and shape of the opening 15.

in the thimble. The openings 15 and 20 are normally in registering positions, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, ready to receive the knot 21 of the brush. The knot is made of relatively inexpensive fibrous material, for instance hemp fiber, of which a knot is formed by winding around a tuft of the same a cord 22, or similar means. The tied end of the knot is of a diameter that it can be conveniently inserted through the registering openings 15 and 20 into the sleeve 12.

The operation of this device is as follows: After the knot has been inserted through the registering openings 15 and 20 into the sleeve 12, the disk 18 is shifted in the thimble in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings by taking hold of the thumb piece 19 thereof; In this manner, the opening 20 is brought into eccentric relation to the opening 15, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, opposite edges of the openings 15 and 20 acting as jaws, gripping the knot. In order to release the knot from the handle, the disk 18 is shifted in the opposite direction, releasing said knot.

ln assembling the handle, first the sleeve 12 is fitted into the recess 11. The disk 18 is then placed into the thimble, which is made of metal. The thimble is then heated and in heated condition forced onto the reduced portion 13 of the handle. In cooling, the thimble shrinks and is thus safely held in position upon the handle, keeping the disk 18 in proper position. The sleeve 12 is provided to reinforce the socketed portion of the handle and also to provide a proper bearing surface for the shiftable disk 18.

What I claim is z- 1. A brush, comprising a handle having a socket in one of its ends, a thimble drawn over the socketed end of said handle having an opening in its fiat head and a slot in its cylindrical wall in a plane at right angles to the longitudinal axis of said handle, a disk shiftably disposed within said thimble abutting against the inner face of the flat head of the latter, said disk being provided with anopening adapted to register with the opening in said thimble and with a thumb piece projecting through said slot, and a knot proing a sleeve Within said socket, said sleeve jecting through said openings into said projecting beyond said handle and said disk socket, said knot being held in position on resting on said sleeve. 10 said handle by shifting said disk to bring its Signed at New York, in the county of 5 opening into eccentric relation to the open- New York and State of New York,- this 14th ing in said thiinble. day of October, A. D. 1920.

2. A brush according to claim 1, con1pris CHARLES SOHATTE. 

